Navigating Ethical Boundaries in Insurance Coverage Disputes: Insights for assigned counsel, coverage counsel, and adversarial insurer counsel

In an insurance dispute, the attorneys are often pulled in different directions. They have a duty of loyalty to their clients, which may be the insured, or the insurer, and the duties may conflict. They also have the duty to prevent disclosure of confidential information by either the insured or the insurer. This presentation provides a brief overview of the relationships between assigned and coverage counsel, and in adversarial litigation such as rescission or disclaimer actions how the attorneys should protect their clients by identifying the issues which are and are not in play.

This course is co-sponsored with myLawCLE.

Key topics to be discussed:

• What assigned counsel, coverage counsel and counsel for an adversarial insurer can and cannot talk about
• What materials can and cannot be exchanged
• Recent and relevant case law
• The mechanics of including underlying counsel in a coverage dispute without violating ethical guidelines

Date / Time: August 21, 2023

Closed-captioning available